@cephCIAC

The Cephalopod International Advisory Council is a scientific group for cephalopod researchers worldwide

Joined November 2012
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These gorgeous models give a glimpse into the diversity of Cephalopods. They are considered the most intelligent of all invertebrates with the most developed nervous systems #CephalopodAwarenessWeek #MolluscMonday 🦑🐙
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Katherine Lu🥈Ocean Photographer of the Year 22 "A female blanket octopus gracefully gliding through the night. It was photographed under difficult conditions, low visibility from volcanic ash post the Taal volcano eruption and the eerie sounds of earthquakes rumbling underwater"
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We hold the holotype of the infamous southern blue-ringed octopus @Museum_Cardiff! Living in rockpools in southern Australia they don’t look very threatening, but their venom can kill a human, so beware! #WorldOctopusDay #CephalopodAwarenessWeek 🐙
Octopus maculosus Hoyle, 1883 Holotype

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Happy #WorldOctopusDay, which is the advent of #CephalopodAwarenessDays! A thread🧵(1/9)
Cephalopod Awareness Days art by Jason Robertshaw

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Giant squid radula, a sort of tongue with small teeth (gastropods have them too). Feels a bit like a cat's tongue. This helps push food down the oesophagus, which passes through the centre of the doughnut-shaped brain.
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Rui Rosa doing some chair work next to Serafim 🐙🐙 @cephCIAC #ciac2022 #cephalopods
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Brooding Squid ~ Gonatid females have small hooks on arms, used to carry up to 3,000 eggs until young hatch+swim away. As squid swim, water is slowly pumped through egg clusters, presumably to keep eggs supplied w/ fresh water+oxygen #PescaderoVentDiving2 youtu.be/ZCOd96ybvtU
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Let me share with you again the latest phylogeny of oceanic squids for this #HappySquidDay. #CephalopodAwarenessWeek – at Barcelona, Spain
Fernando Á. Fernández-Álvarez@cefafalopodo1 Oct 2021
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With those samples we retrieved the complete mitogenome and nuclear ribosomal genes of 35 species using a shallow whole genome sequencing method know as Genome Skimming. Check it out the phylogeny 👇
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Happy #WorldOctopusDay! Here's a remarkable experience researchers had during the #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition with a Dumbo octopus: the deepest-living genus of all known octopuses.
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so, @SchmidtOcean is getting ready to kick off their current expedition in the pescadero basin. what better way to celebrate #WorldOctopusDay than to highlight this incredible footage of a dumbo octopus from the last time they were there: youtu.be/FZ9uaz9vmJ8?t=13840
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It's #WorldOctopusDay! Check out this amazing video captured by Caroline Albertin (@CarrieOcto) of California two-spot octopuses (Octopus bimaculoides) emerging from their egg casings. social.mbl.edu/an-octopus-em…
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#ImageOfTheDay: October 8, 2021: #WorldOctopusDay falling on #OctopusFriday? Woohoo! This octopus (Graneledone verrucosa) was seen while diving in Hudson Canyon during the 2021 ROV Shakedown. Full caption: oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/multi…
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Out Wednesday! Get ready to listen to this special episode from @HaveAWildDay talking to our project founder and director @GavanCooke ✨
WildAboutConservation@Have_A_Wild_Day20 Jun 2021
We are so excited to announce this weeks episode! We get to talk about Cephalopoda with Dr Gavan Cooke, who is the lead researcher of The Cephalopod Citizen Science Project ( @cephcitscience) & works to engage citizen scientists across the globe!🐙🌍#HaveAWildDay
A man with brown hair and glasses wearing a white shirt and brown trousers with a brown belt is stood to the right of the image. Behind him is a scientific poster about cephalopods

ALT A man with brown hair and glasses wearing a white shirt and brown trousers with a brown belt is stood to the right of the image. Behind him is a scientific poster about cephalopods

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On this date in 2019, @oceanexplorer-supported team of scientists in Gulf of Mexico collected first-ever footage of a live giant squid in U.S. waters: oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explo… #CephalopodWeek 📽️: Edie Widder & Nathan Robinson
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NEW GROUP ALERT!! We have expanded our groups and ventured into the US! The South West Pacific group on facebook is now active for posting reports of Cephalopods (cuttlefish, squid, octopus and many more) in US waters. Link to group: facebook.com/groups/94629392…
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Gorgeous big female Megaleledone from the Ross Sea, Antarctica (largest octopus species in the region). There are very few specimens in collections worldwide and this will be one of the largest!
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Back up — it’s #CephalopodWeek AND #OctopusFriday?! Sounds good to us!
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Kicking off #CephalopodWeek on #FossilFriday by showing that not all fossil cephalopods are ammonites! Here are a couple of Jurassic nautiloids, a Silurian ‘orthocone’ nautiloid and a fabulous Jurassic belemnite
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Also starting #CephalopodWeek with the stunning paper nautilus, also known as the argonaut. Only the female has a shell which is created after she mates for the purpose of brooding her young. As a pelagic octopus she also traps air in the shell as a buoyancy aid
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Join Bret Grasse, MBL's Manager of Cephalopod Operations, on June 24 for #CephalopodWeek on @scifri! social.mbl.edu/choose-your-v…
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